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...very interesting game to point up CRIMSON reportorial inaccuracies. The two articles dealing with the Center for Law and Education had their share, including overstating both the number of people whose contracts were not renewed, and the number of alleged "protest" resignations. More important than these factual errors, or the complex issues of personality and structure pertinent to each individual decision, is the CRIMSON statement that the Center is shifting emphasis from law reform activities to legal research...
...know why, exactly, the state of the novel is so bad. I suppose that the growth of journalism in the past few centuries has had a lot to do with it-people are used to reading prose that is straightforward, factual, and dull, which tells a story in the fewest possible words and doesn't bore them with details. The result, of course, has been that English prose style has gone straight to Hell. The Erich Segals of this world are cleaning up on junk that shouldn't get them a passing grade in English...
...reported Garry's statement mentioned the lawyer in their original stories. But some-including the Post and the New York Times-carelessly dropped Garry's name in subsequent stories. With or without mention of the source, the constant use of the figure tended to fix it as factual in the public mind. When finally confronted by Epstein last fall, Garry readily modified the charge from 28 Panther deaths to 19. Later, he classified any figure as "irrelevant...
Your statement that "most other shipping had been suspended during the fog" is not factual. During the period of fog, a total of seven other vessels entered or sailed from San Francisco Bay. There were no other vessels scheduled to sail or arrive during that period...
...commission report states that "although no additional factual information was forthcoming, the commission concluded, on the basis of the consistency of the several complaints received, that discrimination by certain individuals did indeed occur at the DuBois lecture...